WORD OF THE DAY
Something done haphazardly seems completely random, like your little sister's collage of pictures cut carelessly from a magazine and haphazardly glued all over a piece of poster board.
The adverb haphazardly is good for describing something done in an unplanned or random way without concern for the outcome; for example, you might put silverware away by haphazardly tossing it in a drawer, or plant a crazy garden with flowers haphazardly placed here and there around the yard. Haphazardly combines hap, meaning "chance," with hazard, or "danger."
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Vocabulary lists containing haphazardly
When the Watson family pays Grandma a visit in Alabama, they find themselves caught up in the battle for civil rights.
Harry can't wait to return for his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, until a house elf named Dobby warns him of terrible danger ahead. When students start turning to stone — and Harry is a prime suspect — the boy wizard must figure out what's really going on at Hogwarts.
Ender Wiggin is a brilliant but lonely young strategist in a world where children are trained to defend humankind against alien attacks.
Middle schooler Ben Ripley trains to be a junior agent at a top-secret spy school.
